"It's OK to report on the optics of politics, but it shouldn't come at the expense of reporting on substance, and newsrooms need to make sure they're getting the balance right.
#DanielBrunskill, politics and economics reporter, Interest.co.nz
#podcasts #RNZ #Mediawatch
This is the last time I will comment on 2023 election polls. They don't matter nearly as much as the news media seem to think. What matters is policy.
Poll focused coverage turns elections into a horse race between 2 "blocks", as if we're still running elections under FPP. We're not. Thanks to MMP, our elections are no longer a mostly pointless choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They're a choice among many competing visions for the country's future, and policies to support them.
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> The sellers and profiteers who make money out of the user
Cause significantly less harm when selling cannabis than alcohol. Irish Labour recognise this indisputable fact, and wisely propose regulating and taxing the businesses that produce and sell cannabis, like we do with the businesses that produce and sell alcohol. See:
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> only in the most desperate situations when all else failed should you resort to programming
My approach to programming is best summed up by a quote from Mr Miyagi;
"No be there."
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This is is how far to right the Overton Window has been dragged since the Reagan/ Thatcher era.
"I don't know if anyone is on X [Titter] anymore..."
This comment from a working journalist speaks volumes. Only a year ago, it was unthinkable for any media professional *not* to be on Titter.
#SocialMedia #DataFarms
nostr:npub1trdnqrfstufc45awha43p6xy2n0v6czuhapzh4r09hap08dg0c6s9gussx She has had low visibility since getting to parliament. We had higher expectations since defeating Brownlee.
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> She has had low visibility since getting to parliament
True. Which is why I specified...
> Given all the space opening up in the front bench
Labour went into this term with a strong front bench. Plus a huge caucus competing for the minimal attention the news media's race horse coverage of politics gives to backbenchers.
Now...
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> Podcasts without RSS feeds?
Are you talking about RNZ podcasts like Undercurrent? They do have RSS feeds, eg:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/undercurrent-podcast.rss
I listen via AntennaPod.
nostr:npub1k43tm7ehg8s2845crajkqdzhf7yuru0va33ky4swpaa6tuzq5twq3ta8eh nostr:npub1wm75dv8hfu6528lkvmy5nudnraczywl7c5dhn8ctnx6xk0983d0skclxpu There are some fediverse people under the banner of dweb, but mostly it's blockchain grifters. I would characterize a lot of this as being about adopting the superficial mannerisms of radicalism (wearing the T-shirt, etc), while actually being orthodox capitalists.
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> There are some fediverse people under the banner of dweb, but mostly it's blockchain grifters
This isn't a fair survey of the participants. What about this medical student, who is neither?
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But Robert Reich reminds us that the Democrats' commitment even to its own internal democracy has hardly been unwavering;
"... such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016"
... and that;
"Without two parties committed to democratic means to resolve differences in ends, the party committed to democracy is at a tactical disadvantage. If it is to survive, eventually it, too, will sacrifice democratic means to its own ends."
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Final thought; the biggest enemy of US democracy is the Two Party System. Without an easy way for new parties to enter mainstream politics, and corrupted parties to be sidelined by the electorate in their favour, all anti-democratic forces need to do is enter one of the Two Parties in sufficient numbers to corrupt it.
Most people only seem to have noticed this strategy at with the election of Agent Orange. But some noticed it beginning with the Tea Party:
https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/
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But Robert Reich reminds us that the Democrats' commitment even to its own internal democracy has hardly been unwavering;
"... such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016"
... and that;
"Without two parties committed to democratic means to resolve differences in ends, the party committed to democracy is at a tactical disadvantage. If it is to survive, eventually it, too, will sacrifice democratic means to its own ends."
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
Final thought; the biggest enemy of US democracy is the Two Party System. Without an easy way for new parties to enter mainstream politics, and corrupted parties to be sidelined by the electorate in their favour, all anti-democratic forces need to do is enter one of the Two Parties in sufficient numbers to corrupt it.
Most people only seem to have noticed this strategy at with the election of Agent Orange. But some noticed it beginning with the Tea Party:
https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/
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> a publicly available immutable ledger is not the best place to hide
Sure, but you only need to hide your identity once to get the image onto the chain that could be there forever. Available to any other pervert who wants to see it, who always have plausible deniability, because they can claim they were checking a transaction.
It's a huge hole that BlockChain communities are going to need to plug, if they don't want to be constantly reacting to it after the fact.
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> Blockchain forks are a thing. And network participants voting on those forks is also a thing. These images could be removed from the main fork
True, but organising such votes appears to be a huge logistical effort. Worse, every time it's happened, it's damaged confidence in both the techn and the governance around it.
Loss of confidence is bad for any decentralised network tech. It's also bad for any financial institution. It's particularly bad for projects that are both.
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nostr:npub14j2dur6cyxswvhaww8pnyge7542a7099y563z2hnhu267tmejqvs6g98dw
> a publicly available immutable ledger is not the best place to hide
Sure, but you only need to hide your identity once to get the image onto the chain that could be there forever. Available to any other pervert who wants to see it, who always have plausible deniability, because they can claim they were checking a transaction.
It's a huge hole that BlockChain communities are going to need to plug, if they don't want to be constantly reacting to it after the fact.
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Got good news and bad news nostr:npub1nd86x5za0ascfmvmsxqyrzk4xc7l48h6gfmlcf5d3e9munenydys4g2zkd.
Bad news first...
... your naming idea has been claimed by nostr:npub1f9fd738mny4rh95466l75u3raq4t65hcg2zm0qdcc0qgqn7g20lqn0dgxv for his new fediverse messenger app:
https://wedistribute.org/2023/08/sup-by-pixelfed-is-coming/
Good news...
... a lot of what you seem to be proposing is possible right now, by building new apps on top of the existing back-ends of any of the existing ones. This list may be incomplete but its being actively updated and you can browse by language and app types (micro-posting, blog, media-sharing etc);
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Most AP servers support the Mastodon C2S API for connecting the web app to the back-end. Some also starting to support the C2S part of the AP spec. Some add bespoke extensions for app-specific features, which needed to eventually have FEPs.
So app devs need to know which C2S dialects a back-end speaks, and make sure their app supports one of those.
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> Not any realization that immutability is a problem, just a naive hope that users respect a Zero Tolerance Policy
Exactly. See:
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> The immutability has a lot of positive or at least neutral use cases as well though
Sure, immutability can be a useful property. But using a database with that property, on an open network (ie the internet), combines badly with allowing it to store enough immutable data to store images. As the CSAM incident shows.
What were the maintainers who allowed image storage on their BlockChain thinking?!?
On the other hand, you've got to admire her discipline in defending a policy she may not be very impressed by either.
Because what I was impressed by, later in the debate, was the detail Sarah Pallet was able to go into on justice issues. In a very short time too. This is obviously a policy area she knows well, and is very passionate about.
Given all the space opening up in the front bench, she's one to watch as Labour regroups post-election.
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> That's my prediction,
Chelsea Clinton 2028
Avert! I wouldn't wish the likely outcome of that on my worst enemies. Imagine the kind of Trumpet the GoP could blow about elitism if the Dems were foolish enough to make that kind of mistake again.
AOC as VP with Warren as the candidate before another Clinton.
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"... we have been fighting an unending war against piracy. But are not fighting the right battle. We can take their ships, their weapons, and even their lives, we cannot win, if we do not take away their dreams."
Vice Admiral Garp, #OnePiece
#TV #anime #quotes #pirates